Bradgate Park Early Snow

It snowed heavily for about 30 minutes after I arrived at Bradgate this morning giving some very attractive landscapes with a Chinese painting feel. The snow chnaged to rain so it was a very transient effect. The light level was low so it was difficult to record the deer in the snow.

Storm Light and Trees at Lyveden NT

I stopped off at Lyveden Manor and New Bield in Northamptonshire and walked around the estate (house images to follow). There were some very dramatic skies throughout the couple of hours that I spent there - perfect to show off the winter trees.

Sunset Walk with Camera

A fine sunny Monday ended with a colourful sunset so I took my camera on my usual short walk in Toft which includes both wide open vistas and Toft Wood with its great autumn colours. All shot at f2.8 between 1/30th and 1/8th second with unstabilised camera and lens.

Kingston Church in IR

 The Church of All Saints and St Andrew, Church Lane, Kingston was substantially rebuilt in 1488 following a fire and the materials of C13 church reset or incorporated. It is fieldstone and clunch rubble with limestone and clunch dressings and tiled roofs.This church has a great collection of wall-paintings, with representatives from most periods of the church’s history. One of the most striking is the devil drawn in red outline – he has scaly wings and a surprisingly human face. In his stomach is another face, with a more unsettling expression. 

Shallow Depth of Field Flowers

A set of images from the Cambridge Botanic Gardens using a very shallow depth of field (F2) and close-up lens. I did not find it easy to get the focus in the right place.

Autumn at Santon Downham 2

In the afternoon,  it gradually cloudy over giving different lighting to work with. I used an older camera, which will composit only two images together as an average  and a very contrasty 50mm lens. The first image is an example of an old technique - the Orton effect where the first image is out of focus and the second image in exactly the same position is in focus. The second image is a panorama of the confier forest.  The type of picture I had in my mind are images 3-6 where the camera has combines an underexposed ICM image of the forest tree trunks with a bright autumn branch from a beech sapling.